Amour Legende

松鼠自殺事件

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Taiwanese director Wu Mi-Sen's labyrinthine, amnestic romantic drama Amour-Legende centers around Oshima (Yosuke Kubozuka of Isao Yukisada's Go), a married man caught in an illicit affair with a young woman named May. They flee Oshima's family in Taipei City and make a beeline for a South American locale called Snow Mountain - traipsing across outrageously rugged, alien terrain that is inhospitable to even the most hardened traveler. Alas, a surreal series of escapades (such as being inconveniently locked out of a rental car and surviving a prairie full of killer squirrels) drive Oshima around the bend. He loses consciousness, and comes to on a sand dune with yet another young lady, this one a multilingual lass christened Coco - with May nowhere in sight. Coco agrees to help a distraught Oshima find May, and the two hearken back to Snow Mountain - hearing bizarre stories, en route, about the strange and devastating psychological effects rendered by that milieu on couples who harbor illusions of a happy future together.